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Mr. S. from NC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Droids We're Looking For - Part 2

My students need these robots so that as they progress in our coding club they can advance their skills with more abilities.

  • $354 goal

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My Students

I work at a Title I school in a rural community on the northern end of Stanly County in North Carolina. In the county that I teach, we have a poverty rate of nearly twenty percent and the median income has dropped 2.6% from 2015 to 2016. Many of my students come from families that did not further their education (eighty-three percent of those that are twenty-five or older are high school graduates but only sixteen percent have a four-year degree).

My Project

Students will learn an increasingly important skill, computer coding and programming. The various droids will allow students to gradually learn how to code. They will begin by learning the basics and use a drag and drop method to code the robots to perform basic functions.

As they advance in skill, they will begin writing their own code to program the robots.

When they become more comfortable, the initial members will begin recruiting more students to the club. They will demonstrate leadership by taking charge of the club, organizing meetings, being responsible for club materials, and working collaboratively to recruit new members and teaching them what they already know about coding.

Mr. S.
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sphero R2-D2 App-Enabled Droid (Certified Refurbished) • Amazon Business $89.99 1 $89.99
Sphero Original BB-8 by (No Droid Trainer) • Amazon Business $76.00 1 $76.00
Orbotix 1B01RW1 Sphero Ollie App-Controlled Robot • Amazon Business $59.99 1 $59.99
LTGEM EVA Hard Case for Sphero R2-D2 App-Enabled Droid - Travel Protective Carrying Storage Bag • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
LTGEM Case for Sphero Star Wars BB-8 Droid and Force Band-Black • Amazon Business $10.69 1 $10.69

Materials cost

$247.66

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $19.32

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.71

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$300.69

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$53.06

Total project goal

$353.75

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $353.75

2 Donors

-$304.34

Donations toward project cost

-$300.69

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.65

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$49.41

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